“The church is God’s people learning to share his life together. It’s Marvin over there and Diane back here. When I asked Ben about your life together, he told me about your meetings but nothing about your relationships. That told me something. Do you even know Roary’s greatest hope or Jake’s current struggle? Those things rarely come out in meetings. They come out in the naturalness of relationships that occur throughout the week.” “But we’re too busy for that,” Marvin’s wife, Jenny, added. “We try to do that when we get together.” I knew what John was going to say before he said it. “And is
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